The Resurrection of Santana

Since the Santana IV Thread was locked.I'm going to start this one,there was talk about the Santana 3 Band breaking up and the reasons why.I found this article from Rolling Stone.It's an interview with Carlos and the other Band Members on what happen.The Article is from 1972 .The Resurrection of Santana – Rolling Stone

 

That is a fantastic article - thank you. Huge fan of Carlos and the band growing up and did not know any of this stuff. Reading that, it’s no surprise that he found spirituality and went *deep* into it...

 

You want to read Carlos Santana's 2014 autobiography, The Universal Tone. It adds considerable detail to that RS article. Carlos Santana's autobiography, 'The Universal Tone,' recalls days of Woodstock, drugs, racism and music - NY Daily News

 

He's had several resurrections - literally each decade. The guy just keeps making good music.

 

That's on my list of things to get,I have the other book on Santana.

 

saw him last spring, simply wonderful.

 

Santana to release new EP, In Search Of Mona Lisa

7 January, 2019


On January 25, Carlos Santana imprints his familiar band logo onto a small 5-track EP of new original music. The new EP is being called In Search of Mona Lisa. This new batch of music was heavily inspired by the original art piece on display at Paris’ classic Louvre Museum. A vinyl EP edition will be available on February 22.

Currently, Santana is touring the US. The summer will bring a brand new full-length Santana album.

In Search Of Mona Lisa – Santana

01 Do You Remember Me
02 In Search Of Mona Lisa
03 Lovers From Another Time
04 Do You Remember Me (Edit)
05 In Search Of Mona Lisa (Edit)

 

The link doesn't work for me in UK. Could you please tell me if Carlos' book covers a lot about the music, his equipment and compositions or is it more a general life story? Have you read Soul Sacrifice : The Santana Story? Is that any good?

I am looking for a good book that focuses on Santana's music more than his life. Cheers

 

I just finished The Universal Tone. Predominantly life story but there are some details on the music - inspiration, musicians, background, etc. A lot of focus on the first 4 albums especially. He talks a little about his change to Paul Reed guitars but that's about it on the equipment side of things.

 

Carlos talks a bit about Mesa Boogie amps, too. He was one of the first users, liked them a lot, and gave them commercial endorsement. I think Mesa Boogie got started in the early 1970s. That's pretty well-known, as is his endorsement of PRS guitars in more recent years.

Carlos also goes into some detail about his musical influences, and his quest to improve as a player. Most of that is already out there- he got an early start as the son of a musician, got into electric guitar and the blues as a teenager- particularly B. B. King- then discovered Tito Puente, the Butterfield Blues Band, the 1960s San Francisco groups, Gabor Szabo, Fleetwood Mac, Clapton, Hendrix, Sly, Mongo Santamaria, Miles, Airto, Wayne Shorter...a great set of influences that led him and his bandmates to come up with the classic Santana sound.

 

Looking forward to seeing him live in Vegas in a couple weeks.

 

Produced by Rick Rubin, sez the release.

 

The Universal Tone book was really good I thought. Very enlightening,
I haven't caught one of the residency shows here in Vegas yet, but really need to.
I missed that live Santana show for IV that happened but saw them a bunch of times back in the day,
always a great show, I freaked out when I found out they were recording Santana IV right down the street
from where I live now!

 

Santana - Do You Remember Me (Music Video)

 

thats great

 

Santana - In Search Of Mona Lisa



In Search of Mona Lisa - YouTube

 

I saw the band, Santana in (I believe it was) 1969 and then the man, Carlos Santana, as part of the backing band for John Lee Hooker in March, 1989. The Santana show was good but seeing Carlos with John Lee Hooker is far more memorable for me. That show started of very slow, but after a while Hooker and company loosened up and built up steam until it was like a religious revival. Incredible.

 

One thing you can count on from Carlos Santana is he always has a great sounding band. Not always a fan of his music but always a great band.

 

does anyone know if these 3 songs will be included in the album that is coming out in the spring?

i hate to spring for the 10 bucks for the EP and then have the songs come out on the album too. and that seems to be the thing to do nowadays, sadly.

 

that's what I was wondering and why I didn't buy this yet. the new songs sound great though

 

he played 'mona lisa' when i saw him in the fall.

i will not buy this though if he plans on putting the songs on the album, the problem though is that there is no way to know

 

who produced this EP? if its different from who is producing the full length album then doubt they will be on that

 

I found his book; The Universal Tone, to be a light, soft, and whitewashed read. To read it one would never know that Carlos & co. were in one of Rock's most notorious bands during the music's greatest period. I knew girls who got backstage at the Fillmore. Lemmetellya, the stories they told me about Carlos and Chepito are nowhere to be found in the book!

 

narada michael walden.

not sure if he produced the album, but i think i read somewhere that he did.

 

isn't the album due this summer from Santana a big name producer? rick rubin maybe or don was?